The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.
I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of vi… - Diana L. Eck
I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of vi…
- Diana L. Eck
The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are alwa… - Diana L. Eck
The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are alwa…
There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one … - Diana L. Eck
There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one …
I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the plurali… - Diana L. Eck
I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the plurali…
Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and … - Diana L. Eck
Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and …
India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is… - Diana L. Eck
India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is…
My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way i… - Diana L. Eck
My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way i…
Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean… - Diana L. Eck
Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean…
We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes. - Diana L. Eck
We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.
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